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Simplicity and Tolstoy by Chesterton, G. K - 1912
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London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. Handsomely bound in full blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, their small stamp verso front end page , top edge gilt, sepia illustrations, from the collection of Paul Steinbrecher (bookplate) front end page. Very Good Plus, leather a bit lightly rubbed at edges, front board leather sunned vertically in a 1/1/2" wide stripe at fore edge running length of book. . First Edition. Morocco. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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The Poorhouse Fair
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Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. Near Fine, prior owner blindstamp front end page, bottom 1/4" rear board a bit darkened. In a Very Good dust jacket, front flap top corner price-clipped, 1/2" triangular chip top edge at rear spine fold, a few small chips and light rubbing bottom edge. SCARCE in the First Trade Edition. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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New York: Knopf, 1989. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster distributed in limited numbers at the 1989 ABA trade show. Near Fine, 18" w x 24"h, small bottom corner crease. Featuring a photograph of Updike and a quote from the book. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 18" w x 24"h.
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The Flower Drum Song
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. First British Edition/ Very Good, small bumps to corners, prior owner name and small spot of soiling at half-title page. In a Very Good dust jacket, 1/8" of paper loss at spine ends, top corner front flap crease, spine a shade darkened. Basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical and for the 1961 movie, starring Nancy Kwan. Dust jacket art by Shirley Hughes.. First British Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. # 374 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Fletcher Martin at colophon page. Very Good Plus, leather rubbed at spine, in a Very Good Plus linen slipcase, a few spots of toning. . SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Pebbled Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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The Poorhouse Fair
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New York: Knopf, 1959. First Edition stated, 1959. His 2nd book and first novel. Near Fine, small bumps bottom corners, prior owner name and date front end page. In a Very Good dust wrapper, small chips across top edge, small chip near bottom of spine, rubs and 1" tear rear panel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. Near Fine, prior owner blindstamp front end page, bottom 1/4" rear board a bit darkened. In a Very Good dust jacket, front flap top corner price-clipped, 1/2" triangular chip top edge at rear spine fold, a few small chips and light rubbing bottom edge. SCARCE in the First Trade Edition. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1957. First British Edition/ Very Good, small bumps to corners, prior owner name and small spot of soiling at half-title page. In a Very Good dust jacket, 1/8" of paper loss at spine ends, top corner front flap crease, spine a shade darkened. Basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical and for the 1961 movie, starring Nancy Kwan. Dust jacket art by Shirley Hughes.. First British Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. # 374 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Fletcher Martin at colophon page. Very Good Plus, leather rubbed at spine, in a Very Good Plus linen slipcase, a few spots of toning. . SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Pebbled Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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Simplicity and Tolstoy
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Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. ~No dustwrapper. Light foxing to page edges. Bookplate to inside front cover. No losses to spine. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. 1st edn. Hardback. Very Good. vii,84pp., illus. 15 x 11.5 x 1.5 cm. Binding sound, text unmarked.
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Simplicity and Tolstoy
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London: Arthur L. Humphreys , 1912. Paperback, stiff card covers. 15cm x 11.5cm. vii, 84pp. Illustrative title page. Illustrations throughout. 1st edition 1912. Small losses to spine. A little occasional foxing. Private ownership. (r36). 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Fair.
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London: Humphreys, 1912. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in green morocco with spine elabortely stamped in gilt with five raised bands, boards ruled in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contains, in addition to the title essay, "Francis", "William Morris and His School", and "Thomas Carlyle". 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. 85 pages.
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Simplicity and Tolstoy (FIRST EDITION)
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London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, 1912. Simplicity and Tolstoy by G. K. Chesterton. Also includes Francis; William Morris and His School; Thomas Carlyle. This selection printed from Twelve Types of 1902. Sullivan A. 4. Bound in Arts & Crafts style suede leather with a floral border around gilt text. 85 pp. Uncut fore edge and gilt top edge. <br><br>CONDITION: Near fine. Covers curl out a bit. <br><br>Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & the Inklings. Full refund if not satisfied. Full refund if not satisfied.
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Simplicity and Tolstoy.
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1912. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. Small 4to., rebound by Morrell of London in full red morocco, with gilt borders and cornerpieces to boards; five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative borders gilt along spine; art deco embossed decoration extending from each band onto boards; upper edge gilt, else untrimmed; with gilt turn-ins and blue textured endpapers; full woodcut title; additional title in red and black; tipped-in engraved head and tail pieces to start and finish each chapter; pp. [x], vii, [iii], 3-84, [viii]; a couple of light scratches to binding; endleaves lightly offset; else fine. First edition of this collection of short essays, also encompassing Francis [d'Assisi], William Morris and Thomas Carlyle. A charming little pocket book, in a fine arts and crafts binding.
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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Cold Mountain
by Frazier, Charles
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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We Loved Them Once
by Rivers, Ronda
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
by Twain, Mark; Jiri Hejna
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Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).
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